Hive stand

Learn how beehive stands enhance hive health and make colony maintenance much easier. There are many advantages to using them in your apiary.

With the arrival of our packaged bees scheduled for April 16th, it was time to get into gear and construct a hive stand. Getting the hives off of the ground is helpful in several ways. One, it provides better ventilation, and it also helps save your back when working the hives. It looks good too, which is a plus if you are going to have hives in your backyard! I built the hive stand using treated lumber, and it should provide years of low maintenance service. Here is the area after the sod…

Damn ants took advantage of my two weak nuc (nucleus) hives and crawled up and infested the place. They were there to steal the 1:1 sugar:water syrup that I had left to feed weak bees, as it was g…

Beehive Stands Put Together In 5 Minutes? We're Using Concrete Cinder Blocks & 4x4 Posts to make a beehive stand. Come See How Easy It Is! #TexasHomesteader

Beehive stand with top (to block heavy rainfall and shade for me behind the hives when working!)

Bee Hives. Not TOOOO close to the house, but must have that yummy honey.

Hi everyone! We lost our very first bee hive to ants. We even tried many of the old wives tales such as buckets of water/oil for the stand legs,...

Hive stand.

If your hive has a solid bottom board, tip it slightly forward to allow the water to drain. Making a simple hive shelter will also help keep your bees dry.

Make Your Own Honey Cow (Top Bar Bee Hive): More information: http://velacreations.com/bees.html More photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/velacreations/sets/72157622528453587/ Beekeeping is an ancient DIY art, performed by amateurs and makers for centuries. Anyone can produce natural honey …

I never planned to raise chickens or bees, yet here I sit, a card-carrying chicken junkie and a brand new beekeeper! I felt fairly prepared for my first flo ...

Beehive Stands Put Together In 5 Minutes? We're Using Concrete Cinder Blocks & 4x4 Posts to make a beehive stand. Come See How Easy It Is! #TexasHomesteader

Okay, my husband built an awesome coop for me last year. I knew I needed a hive stand so I started bugging him a few weeks ago. He tried to insist that the cinder blocks would do and I insisted the…

One of the many reasons Jay and I decided to purchase land with so much acreage was so that we could eventually build a little homestead - a homestead where we could teach our future children the importance of self sustainability, hard work, and the growing up wild lifestyle we wish for them to have.

What is a Rose hive? Never heard of it? It is a new development in hive-management. Rose Hives are basically he same as the hives your Joe Average bee keeper uses, except instead of having two different size boxes (one for brood-rearing and one for supers), there is just one size box which can be used for either bro

Beekeepers learn fast that planning is a large part of the profession, and you cannot put off Nature’s timetable. I am expecting a shipment of 25 new bee colonies from Mississippi next week and if…